Omar sponsor Lindholme Lakes Summer Angling Festival

Omar is delighted to sponsor Lindholme Lakes Country Park for their Summer Angling Festival (25th to 29th July). As the one of the largest festivals of it’s kind to be held in the UK and with well know anglers competing such as Tommy Pickering and Nick Speed, it’s an event not to be missed!

Lindholme Lakes Country Park, set in the beautiful countryside of South Yorkshire, is a luxury lodge park with a difference. With award-winning, high quality fishing lakes, the park attracts world-class anglers from the UK and further afield such as five time World Champion Alan Scotthorne MBE, and regularly plays host to events such as Fish O’ Mania, Maver Match This and the Angling Trust National Championships.

There’s a choice of ten pools for both match and pleasure anglers, all of which are available for competition and event bookings. The match record currently stands at a massive 321lb 8oz and the lakes contain carp weighing well over 20lb! With first class facilities including luxury lodge accommodation – all from Omar, a touring caravan site, cafe, bar area and comprehensively stocked tackle and bait shop, if you love fishing, this is definitely the park for you!

Lindholme Lakes Summer Angling Festival is a prestigious event in the fishing calendar attracting world-class anglers such as Individual World Champion of 1989, Tommy Pickering and Match Ace and currently Midland Angler Of The Year Champion, Nick Speed. Running over the course of five days, over 75 anglers will compete for an impressive prize fund of £15,000.

Neil Grantham, owner of Lindholme Lakes Country Park commented: “The Summer Angling Festival has developed into a major event and is now the second biggest of its kind in the UK. We are delighted to have Omar sponsoring the festival this year and look forward to a successful event.”

Dean Westmoreland, Omar Group CEO commented: “We are delighted to sponsor this prestigious event. Lindholme Lakes is a well-run, family orientated site with a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. Offering first-class facilities, Lindholme Lakes source all their residential standard lodges exclusively from Omar. The park is conveniently located near to Doncaster and is very picturesque with lots of wildlife, so even if you’re not a fishing enthusiast, there’s plenty to enjoy.”